Shigella
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Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria known for causing shigellosis, a severe form of bacterial dysentery in humans.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shigella dysenteriae | 3 |
| Shigella canonical | 2 |
| Shigella flexneri | 2 |
| Shigella boydii | 1 |
| Shigella sonnei | 1 |
| genus Shigella | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11515267 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shigella Context triple: [Gammaproteobacteria, includesGenus, Shigella]
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A.
Campylobacter
Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria that commonly causes foodborne gastrointestinal infections in humans, often associated with undercooked poultry.
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B.
Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative, comma-shaped bacterium that causes the acute diarrheal disease cholera in humans.
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C.
Yersinia
Yersinia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes several pathogenic species, most notably Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.
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D.
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli is a widely studied, rod-shaped bacterium commonly found in the intestines of warm-blooded animals and extensively used as a model organism in microbiology and genetics.
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E.
Salmonella spp.
Salmonella spp. are a group of pathogenic bacteria that commonly cause foodborne and gastrointestinal infections in humans and animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shigella Target entity description: Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria known for causing shigellosis, a severe form of bacterial dysentery in humans.
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A.
Campylobacter
Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria that commonly causes foodborne gastrointestinal infections in humans, often associated with undercooked poultry.
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B.
Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative, comma-shaped bacterium that causes the acute diarrheal disease cholera in humans.
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C.
Yersinia
Yersinia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes several pathogenic species, most notably Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.
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D.
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli is a widely studied, rod-shaped bacterium commonly found in the intestines of warm-blooded animals and extensively used as a model organism in microbiology and genetics.
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E.
Salmonella spp.
Salmonella spp. are a group of pathogenic bacteria that commonly cause foodborne and gastrointestinal infections in humans and animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial genus ⓘ |
| antibioticResistance | often multidrug-resistant ⓘ |
| biosafetyLevel | BSL-2 ⓘ |
| catalaseTest | catalase-positive ⓘ |
| cellShape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| class | Gammaproteobacteria ⓘ |
| complication |
dehydration
ⓘ
hemolytic uremic syndrome (some strains) ⓘ reactive arthritis ⓘ |
| controlMeasure |
hand hygiene
ⓘ
improved sanitation ⓘ safe drinking water ⓘ safe food handling ⓘ |
| diseaseCaused |
bacillary dysentery
ⓘ
shigellosis ⓘ |
| family |
Enterobacteriaceae
ⓘ
linked to:
Enterobacterales
|
| genomeType | circular double-stranded DNA ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-negative ⓘ |
| hostRange | humans ⓘ |
| infectiousDose | very low infectious dose ⓘ |
| invasionMechanism | cell invasion and intracellular spread ⓘ |
| invasionTargetCell | intestinal epithelial cells ⓘ |
| kingdom | Bacteria ⓘ |
| lactoseFermentation | non-lactose-fermenting ⓘ |
| motility | non-motile ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Shigella boydii
ⓘ
linked to:
Shigella
Shigella dysenteriae ⓘ
linked to:
Shigella
Shigella flexneri ⓘ
linked to:
Shigella
Shigella sonnei ⓘ
linked to:
Shigella
|
| order | Enterobacterales ⓘ |
| oxidaseTest | oxidase-negative ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | facultative anaerobe ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | highly pathogenic to humans ⓘ |
| phylum | Pseudomonadota ⓘ |
| primaryHabitat | human intestinal tract ⓘ |
| publicHealthRelevance | major cause of bacterial diarrhea worldwide ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Escherichia coli ⓘ |
| siteOfInfection |
colon
ⓘ
distal ileum ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | non-spore-forming ⓘ |
| stainMethod | Gram stain ⓘ |
| symptom |
abdominal cramps
ⓘ
bloody diarrhea ⓘ fever ⓘ tenesmus ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| transmissionRoute |
contaminated food
ⓘ
contaminated water ⓘ fecal-oral ⓘ person-to-person contact ⓘ |
| virulenceFactor |
Ipa proteins
ⓘ
Shiga toxin (in some species) ⓘ Shigella virulence plasmid ⓘ type III secretion system ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Shigella Description of subject: Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria known for causing shigellosis, a severe form of bacterial dysentery in humans.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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